Wednesday, 29 December 2010

a hidden kiss

Wendy: Heavens. – Hook!Millicent: Hook?Michael: Hook, whose eyes turn red as he guts you.Millicent: Upon my soul, how children are educated nowadays.Wendy: [Chuckles] – I’m afraid I am not learned at all, Aunt. But I do know a thing or two about pirates... My unfulfilled ambition is to write a great novel in three parts about my adventures.Millicent: What adventures?Wendy: I’ve yet to have them, but they will be perfectly thrilling.Millicent: But, child, novelists are not highly thought of in good society. And there is nothing so difficult to marry as a novelist.All: Marry? – Marry? Marry? – But, Aunt, Wendy is not yet 13.Millicent: Walk toward me, dear, that I may appraise you.Mr. Darling: Go on. Walk to your auntie. Stand up straight.[Children giggling]Millicent: Stop it! – Turn around.Mr. Darling: Shh.Millicent: Mm, yes. Oh, it’s quite as I expected.....Wendy possesses a woman’s chin. Have you not noticed? Observe her mouth.....There, hidden in the right-hand corner....is that a kiss?[Mrs. Darling Gasps]Mrs. Darling: A kiss? – Like Mother’s kiss.Millicent: A hidden kiss.Mrs. Darling: But what is it for?Millicent: It is for the greatest adventure of all....They that find it…have slipped in and out of heaven.Wendy: Find what?Millicent: The one the kiss belongs to.Mrs. Darling: My Wendy…a woman.Millicent: Almost a woman.